Robert Pattinson On Making ‘The Right Move’ That Landed Him ‘The Batman’: ‘By Far The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done’
08.02.2022 - 18:27
/ etcanada.com
It’s been a long time since Robert Pattinson rose to fame with the teen-vampire saga “Twilight”.
The 35-year-old actor’s 2008 breakout role as Edward Cullen set him up for success and led him down a particular path in Hollywood. Pattinson took on roles in smaller films with singular filmmakers, which was all part of his brilliant decade-long plan to break out of that one specific lane.
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“I’m constantly doing risk assessments, which drives everybody crazy, trying to predict every single element that could possibly happen,” Pattison told GQ for his March cover story. “And then, at the end of it, just being like: ‘Ah, f**k it! I’ll just play a lighthouse keeper who f**ks a mermaid [“The Lighthouse”]! I think this is the right move!'”
When the award-winning Robert Eggers film “The Lighthouse” premiered in 2019, news of Pattinson starring as Batman also broke that same year. Production was in full gear ahead of the pandemic and continued filming while the rest of the world came to a halt.
“I just always had this anchor of Batman,” Pattinson said. “Rather than thinking you’re flotsam to the news, you could feel engaged without being paralyzed by it. Everyone I know, if you had a little momentum going in your career or your life, then stopping, you had to have a reckoning with yourself. Whereas I was so incredibly busy the whole time, doing something that was also super high pressure, by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done…. I was still playing Batman at the end of the day, even though the world might end.”
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